Tag: cosplay

Hello from Japan, where the words "not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin" mean something very different.In addition to writing ...

One of the proudest days in the lives of parents is going shopping with their child to buy a school ...

Well, the San Diego Comic-Con is over for another year, the banners and booths all taken down. After all the ...

Well, another Anime Expo has come and gone, and the J-List crew had a blast, meeting our awesome customers and ...

There's no place quite like Japan for that paradigm-shifting-without-a-clutch experience. When my daughter started junior high school, she went online ...

This Friday is Setsubun, a special Japanese day when fathers will put on paper masks and become an oni (devil ...

Another big part of the year-end festivities for many is attending Comic Market, the sprawling doujinshi event held in Tokyo ...

Well, the first season of the I Have Few Friends anime has ended, although I wish it would go on ...

Today is Halloween, a day for wearing ghoulish costumes and having lots of scary fun. Although you can see plenty ...

Ever since the word "idol" (aidoru) entered the language in 1971, Japan has had a weakness for kawaii female idols. ...

Drinking establishments vary from country to country, and Japan is no exception. Here a person looking for a drink has ...

Well, the San Diego Comic-con is over for another year, and the J-List staff and I are tired, but still ...

There are many fascinating new technologies that come along, and you never know which will take off. The QR ("quick ...

We're having a great time here at Anime Expo in Los Angeles, meeting fans and customers and selling lots of ...

Recently I was getting all nostalgic with my Twitter followers about how things have changed for anime fans over the ...

Japan is finishing up its Golden Week holidays, and since several of the J-List staff have been taking a few ...

The other day, my daughter came out of her room, and I did a double-take. She was wearing one of ...

Harry Potter fans are going wild over the new film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I, which opened ...

I like to pick up on random bits of Japanese language and see what they can teach us, and one ...

Will you be attending the New York Comic Convention/Anime Festival? If so be sure to drop by booth 2651. J-List's ...

One of the more popular anime series from the 1980s was the Lovely Angels, I mean Dirty Pair, the story ...

The other day I was sitting in a jacuzzi, pretending I was in a bubbling onsen hot springs bath back ...

If you read blogs about Japan at all, one question that gets asked a lot is, "Why is Japan so ...

Increasingly otaku culture encompassing everything from anime to Miku Hatsune to cosplay is becoming Japan's mainstream culture, at least among ...